When:
February 20, 2019 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2019-02-20T10:45:00+00:00
2019-02-20T12:45:00+00:00
Where:
The Course at The University Womens Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£59.00
Contact:
Established in 1994, The Course offers exciting lectures in art history, literature and music.
London has transformed almost unrecognisably since 1900. At the beginning of the period the capital of a truly global empire and its largest port. At the end, the centre of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan societies, a great financial centre and a cultural hub. This twenty part series of lectures and walks will trace the forces that transformed London, from Imperial pomp through wartime catastrophe, to the vibrant but nervous metropolis of the 21st century.
The Big Bang
In one field the transformation of the economic life of the city was explosive. The City of London abandoned the traditional trappings of the banking industry and adopted a brash new persona and once again it was transformed by a wave of new buildings, including an extraordinary extension into what was once London’s docklands.